At present day, the computing paradigm is shifting towards hand held devices. Many companiesrnare working together to accelerate innovation in mobile technology and offer customers a richerrnless expensive and better mobile experience. These handheld devices are becoming widely usedrnin our country. Nevertheless many users were not able to efficiently utilize their devices due tornlack of language support. The desire for Ethiopic text entry on mobile devices increased with thernadvent of the mobile technology in our country.rnThe objective of this project is to design and implement a phonetic input method for Ethiopicrnscripts for the widely accepted Android mobile OS. Android OS is selected by considering itsrncurrent popularity and its open facilities for developing an input method. This work proposes arnlanguage neutral and application independent phonetic Ethiopic input method that supports bothrnsoft and hard keys of the phones. For this purpose the system is designed based on the Ethiopicrnsymbol mapping principles that is identified from the Geâ€™ez Frontier Foundationâ€™s specification.rnThe system design is implemented using the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in withrnEclipse integrated development Environment (IDE). The system is also implemented in such arnway that Ethiopic and Latin scripts can be switched to enable multi-script text entry. It wasrnpossible to integrate the implemented system with basic mobile application such as messagingrnand phonebook applications.rnKeywords:- Ethiopic input method, Phonetic Ethiopic input method, Android Ethiopic,rnEthiopic for Smart Phones.